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Re: distributed filesystem for backup



2006/9/10, Keith Edmunds <keith@midnighthax.com>:
On 09/10/2006 6:24:41 PM +0100
Michael Loftis <mloftis@modwest.com> said:

> That said, it might not be quite what you want.  because each
> volume can only exist on one fileserver at a time in read+write mode.  A
> single volume cannot be distributed.

That's true, but you can NFS mount the volume on the secondary server,
effectively making it available to both systems.

GFS does that - with locking mechanism - so one volume can be mounted
by X nodes in a cluster.

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